Les Murray
The octopus is dead
who lived in Wylies Baths
below the circus balustrade
and the chocked sea tiles.
Afternoon tea
Susan K. Martin
The Penguin Book of Australian Bush Writing
edited by John Ross
Viking, $32.95 pb, 356 pp, 9780670076413
Twinings has recently introduced a new tea flavour called ‘Australian Afternoon Tea’. On the box is an image ...
Biplane Houses by Les Murray & Collected Poems by Les Murray
by Lisa Gorton •
Paul Kane reviews 'The Poetry of Les Murray' edited by Laurie Hergenhan and Bruce Clunies Ross, 'Les Murray' by Steven Matthews, and 'Poems the Size of Photographs' by Les Murray
by Paul Kane •
You might expect a book of eighty-eight new poems by Les Murray to be sizeable (most of his recent single volumes run to about sixty poems each). But Poems the Size of Photographs is literally a small book, composed of short poems (‘though some are longer’, says the back cover) ...
... (read more)Dog Fox Field by Les Murray & Blocks and Tackles by Les Murray
by Julian Croft •
The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse edited by Les A. Murray
by Michael Heyward •